This is another installment in the WCF vs. WTF article series. I mentioned before that I am quite a fan of WCF but having said that, feel that there are a few areas for improvement like sending method comments with the service contract discovery and more streamlined debugging, to name a couple.

One feature I employ often in Silverlight projects is the ability to share a model between the client and the server. When you expose a model using a WCF service, you can consume it on the Silverlight side and indicate you want to reuse types in a referenced assembly, rather than having the proxy types generated. . . . → Read More: Silverlight 4 Hosting :: Data Contracts and Behaviors over the Wire Silverlight 4

Service contract means the collective mechanisms by which a service’s capabilities and requirements are specified for its consumers. We must say that it defines the operations that a service will perform when executed. It tells more things about a service, like message data types, operation locations, the protocols the client will need in order to communicate . . . → Read More: WCF Hosting :: WCF Service Contract

As you already know that, it is a new feature in Silverlight 5 and hence was not available in earlier version of Silverlight. So, how did we implement the style setter in previous versions? Let’s start from the scratch, where we will know how to use a Setter in Style and then we will jump to . . . → Read More: Silverlight 5 Hosting :: Style Setter in Silverlight 5